 | Charles Lyman Newhall - 1859 - 150 pages
...trials that are experienced upon the briny deep. And I would say — " Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over...thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his contiol Stops with the shore ; upon the. watery plain The wrecks are all thy deeds, nor doth remain... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...latter method. Immensity, Sublimity — are expressed by a prolongation and swell of the voice. Boll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll, Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Motion and sound, in all their modifications, are, in descriptive reading, more or less imitated.... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...more! Too faithful mirror! how dost thou reflect The melancholy face of human life! YOUNO. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand...sweep over thee in vain: Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 pages
...always a favourite theme with the muses. The following is a well-known poet's address: — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Thou glorious mirror ! where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, — through all... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...the water would be turbid, and shell-fish would be destroyed. LESSON XVIIL— OCEAN WAVES. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thec in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 448 GLEANINCS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS. Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The... | |
 | Elpis Melena - 1862 - 320 pages
...of the dreadful death we had been delivered from, the words of the poet came to my mind, " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand...thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control * Dolomieu speaks of bushes which grow on this southern part, but I saw nothing of the kind.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...OCEAN WAVES. ROLL on, thon deep and dark blue ocean — roll 1 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thce In vain; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with thn shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage,... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
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Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore j upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop... 
